Pakistani cricket team in New Zealand in 2014–15

Pakistan cricket team in New Zealand in 2014–15

	New Zealand	Pakistan
Dates	31 January 2015 – 3 February 2015
Captains	Brendon McCullum	Misbah-ul-Haq
One Day International series
Result	New Zealand won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Ross Taylor (161)	Misbah-ul-Haq (103)
Most wickets	Grant Elliott (5)	Mohammad Irfan (3)
Player of the series	Grant Elliott (NZ)

The Pakistan cricket team toured New Zealand from 31 January to 3 February 2015. The tour consisted of two 50-over Tour Matches and two One Day International matches which formed part of Pakistan’s preparation for the 2015 Cricket World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand.^[1]^[2] New Zealand won the series 2–0.

Squads

ODIs
New Zealand	Pakistan
Brendon McCullum (c) (wk) Corey Anderson Trent Boult Grant Elliott Martin Guptill Tom Latham (wk) Mitchell McClenaghan Nathan McCullum Kyle Mills Adam Milne Luke Ronchi (wk) Tim Southee Ross Taylor Daniel Vettori Kane Williamson (vc)	Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Ehsan Adil Shahid Afridi (vc) Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Umar Akmal (wk) Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Irfan Bilawal Bhatti^[3] Sohail Khan Younis Khan Sohaib Maqsood Wahab Riaz Yasir Shah Ahmed Shehzad Haris Sohail

Tour Matches

50-over Tour Match

25 January 2015
Scorecard

Pakistan 313 (49.3 overs)	v	New Zealand Board Presidents XI 317/4 (49.2 overs)
Misbah-ul-Haq 107 (119) Logan van Beek 2/53 (10 overs)		Tim Seifert 115* (89) Ehsan Adil 2/81 (9.2 overs)

New Zealand Board President's XI won by 4 wickets
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln
Umpires: Gary Baxter and Tony Gillies
Player of the match: Tim Seifert (NZ Presidents XI)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat

2nd 50-over Tour Match

27 January 2015
Scorecard

Pakistan 267/7 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand Board Presidents XI 269/9 (49.5 overs)
Misbah-ul-Haq 88* (89) Kyle Jamieson 2/49 (9 overs)		Michael Pollard 153 (132) Mohammad Irfan 3/39 (10 overs)

New Zealand Board President's XI won by 1 wicket
Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln
Umpires: Gary Baxter and Phil Jones
Player of the match: Michael Pollard (NZ Presidents XI)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat

ODI series

1st ODI

31 January 2015
14:00 (D/N)
Scorecard

Pakistan 210 (45.3 overs)	v	New Zealand 213/3 (39.3 overs)
Shahid Afridi 67 (29) Grant Elliott 3/26 (4.3 overs)		Grant Elliott 64* (68) Shahid Afridi 1/39 (10 overs)

New Zealand won by 7 wickets
Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Michael Gough (Eng)
Player of the match: Grant Elliott (NZ)

New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.

2nd ODI

3 February 2015
14:00 (D/N)
Scorecard

New Zealand 369/5 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 250 (43.1 overs)
Kane Williamson 112 (88) Mohammed Irfan 2/52 (10 overs)		Mohammad Hafeez 86 (89) Nathan McCullum 2/33 (5 overs)

New Zealand won by 119 runs
McLean Park, Napier
Umpires: Rod Tucker (Aus) and Derek Walker (NZ)
Player of the match: Kane Williamson (NZ)

New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.

References

↑ Staff, ESPNcricinfo (3 June 2014). "Test cricket returns to Christchurch". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
↑ "Pakistan tour of Australia and New Zealand, 2014/15 / Fixtures". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
↑ "Junaid to miss NZ ODIs with injury". Retrieved 26 January 2015.

External links

Series home on ESPN Cricinfo

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International cricket in 2014–15

Preceding season: International cricket in 2014

October 2014	Australia and Pakistan in UAE West Indies in India South Africa in New Zealand Zimbabwe in Bangladesh World Cricket League Division Three

November 2014	Sri Lanka in India South Africa in Australia Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea in Australia Hong Kong and Nepal in Sri Lanka New Zealand and Pakistan in UAE England in Sri Lanka Afghanistan in UAE

December 2014	India in Australia West Indies in South Africa Sri Lanka in New Zealand

January 2015	Dubai Tri-Series India and England in Australia Division Two ACC T20 Cup Pakistan in New Zealand

February 2015	World Cup

March 2015	Africa T20 Championship

April 2015	England in West Indies Pakistan in Bangladesh

Following season: International cricket in 2015